by Chris | Sep 6, 2007 | Applications, Development, Development, Hardware, Hardware, Mobile, Web
The Apple Event on September 5th with Steve Jobs was really stunning. The complete iPod product line is renewed and Apple created even a new type of iPod: the iPod touch. On the first look this is just a further development of the iPod-portfolio for watching movies in...
by Chris | Sep 4, 2007 | Culture, Web
This blog is normally not focussing on politics, legislation, the constitutional state or democracy. But the things happening in Germany’s domestic and legal policy these days, slowly but massively affect our life and work. It affects our rule of law, our...
by Chris | Sep 4, 2007 | Applications, Web
WordPress 2 comes with a standard WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) Visual Editor. It is based on TinyMCE … and it is not bug free 😉 Within Safari (3.0.3, Mac) for example, I always loose all <br ⁄> and <p> <⁄p> tags when I...
by Chris | Aug 21, 2007 | Applications, Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Mac, Mobile, Web
The new Flash Player beta version is ready to download on the Adobe Lab web pages: Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2. Most important: The support of the video codec H.264 and the audio codec AAC. Both belong to the best codecs in quality and efficiency on the market. And...
by Chris | Aug 20, 2007 | Applications, Applications, Mac, Web
Skype kept shtum about the cause of the massive breakdown of the Service infrastructure within the last days. They only emphesized that it was not a hacker attack. Now the company Skype sheds light on the reason: A patch of the Microsoft Windows operating system...
by Chris | Jul 30, 2007 | Culture, Development, Web
Three years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson published the first release of Ruby on Rails to the public. The paradigmatic shift of programming web applications in an elegant, pragmatic way is a present to all of us. It’s fun to draft and scaffold an application, to...